Posted on 11/18/2022 6:00:04 PM PST by Timber Rattler
In nine months of brutal fighting, the army of the pro-Russian Donetsk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region has buried or sent to the hospital as many men as it had in its entire pre-war army.
The separatist DPR began Russia’s wider war on Ukraine in February with around 20,000 men in six light infantry brigades. By November, the army had lost 3,746 killed in action and 15,794 wounded in action, according to the DPR’s ombudsman.
That’s 19,540 KIAs or WIAs. While many of the wounded undoubtedly returned to front-line service, many didn’t. And yes, the DPR army has expanded over the course of the nine-month wider war through the forced mobilization of thousands of men from the separatist state’s 2.3 million population.
But even if the DPR army doubled in size, losing half its ultimate manpower is still catastrophic.
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Russian leaders seem to view DPR men as cannon fodder. “They don't count us, they leave us,” one drunk Donetsk fighter complained in a video that went viral in August. “But I want to live."
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
I know or should I say knew some veterans who landed on Omaha and Utah Beach.
One guy told me he came ashore and all the guys in his boat were killed.
He said “I laid on my belly for four hours. Every time I picked my head up I nearly had it shot off’’.
Yet others, including but not limited to cranked, keep insisting that it is Ukraine that is losing badly.
Yet others, including but not limited to cranked, keep insisting that it is Ukraine that is losing badly.
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